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Research
Latest papers
Smart municipal wastewater treatment sludge management: Enhancement of biogas production from anaerobic digestion amended by optimized sludge-derived biochar.
The Science of the total environment · 2025
A method for evaluating and verifying biochemical methane potential test completion performed with landfilled municipal solid waste.
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2025
Optimization and assessment of an electrochemical advanced oxidation system for synthetic stormwater treatment.
Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022 · senior author
Latest funding
- $43,000
Direct potable reuse of municipal wastewater and urban stormwater in Canada
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $125,000
First Nations Built Environment Climate Action
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $250,000
Revolutionizing the Tracking of Microplastics: Novel DNA-Labelled Plastics for Environmental and Toxicological Studies
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
14 publications.
Smart municipal wastewater treatment sludge management: Enhancement of biogas production from anaerobic digestion amended by optimized sludge-derived biochar.
Zeynali R, Asadi M, Ankley P, Mahoney H, Brinkmann M, Acharya B, McPhedran K, Soltan J
A method for evaluating and verifying biochemical methane potential test completion performed with landfilled municipal solid waste.
Casavant TJ, McPhedran K, Fleming IR
Optimization and assessment of an electrochemical advanced oxidation system for synthetic stormwater treatment.
Bettman N, Alam R, Patterson-Fortin L, Asadi M, McPhedran K
Urban stormwater runoff pollutant loadings: GIS land use classification vs. sample-based predictions.
Al Masum A, Bettman N, Read S, Hecker M, Brinkmann M, McPhedran K
Traffic-derived contaminant loading in snow storage facilities during spring melt.
Popick H, Brinkmann M, McPhedran K
Assessment of stormwater discharge contamination and toxicity for a cold-climate urban landscape.
Popick H, Brinkmann M, McPhedran K
Biogas maximization using data-driven modelling with uncertainty analysis and genetic algorithm for municipal wastewater anaerobic digestion.
Asadi M, McPhedran K
Estimation of greenhouse gas and odour emissions from a cold region municipal biological nutrient removal wastewater treatment plant.
Asadi M, McPhedran K
Enhanced arsenate removal by Fe-impregnated canola straw: assessment of XANES solid-phase speciation, impacts of solution properties, sorption mechanisms, and evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR) models.
Zoroufchi Benis K, Shakouri M, McPhedran K, Soltan J
Biogas production estimation using data-driven approaches for cold region municipal wastewater anaerobic digestion.
Asadi M, Guo H, McPhedran K
Direct potable reuse of municipal wastewater and urban stormwater in Canada
Principal investigators: McPhedran, Kerry
Keywords: direct potable reuse; indirect potable reuse; municipal wastewater; urban stormwater; irrigation; potable water
First Nations Built Environment Climate Action
Principal investigators: Martin, Wanda L
Keywords: Energy-Efficient Housing
Revolutionizing the Tracking of Microplastics: Novel DNA-Labelled Plastics for Environmental and Toxicological Studies
Principal investigators: Brinkmann, Markus
Keywords: Microplastics; Environmental fate; Toxicokinetics; DNA barcoding; Stormwater; Wastewater; Water research
Biogas production enhancement from the Saskatoon Wastewater Treatment Plant
Principal investigators: McPhedran, Kerry KN
Keywords: anaerobic digestion; biogas; carbon dioxide; methane; municipal wastewater treatment
Building the Future
Principal investigators: Kirychuk, Shelley; Bradford, Lori E; Martin, Wanda L; McPhedran, Kerry
Keywords: Built Environment And Health; Capacity Building; Environment; First Nations; Health Outcomes; Housing And Health; Knowledge Exchange; Policy Interventions; Program Interventions; Tool Kits
Innovating Design and Decision-Making for Sediment Management in Stormwater Retention Ponds: Enhancing Pond Performance while Minimizing Lifecycle Costs
Principal investigators: Mazurek, Kerry Anne KA
Keywords: computational fluid dynamics; retention ponds; sediment; urban stormwater; water quality
Development of an eco-friendly adsorbent for selective removal of selenium in uranium mining wastewater
Principal investigators: Soltan, Jafar J
Quantitative determination of plastic debris, microparticles, and organic contaminants in Saskatoon's stormwater
Principal investigators: Brinkmann, Markus
Evaluation of an AOS reactor treatment train for stormwater effluents
Principal investigators: McPhedran, Kerry
Assessment of the in situ energy recovery potential from medium-sized landfills in Canada
Principal investigators: Fleming, Ian
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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